Daily News Publishes Tasteful Naked Photo of Truman Capote

December 12, 2011

The New York Daily Newslaunched a blog about literature and publishing today called Page Views. So far it has three posts: one introductory post from each editor and also a nude photo of Truman Capote lounging in a towel. As if a tabloid with a lit blog wasn’t novel enough!

Co-editor Alexander Nazaryan writes, “You may not think of the tabloid as a particularly literary format, but we are going to challenge your assumptions of what constitutes literary/cultural reporting in this town.”

And: “We will post old Daily News photographs of Truman Capote, all-but-naked, and Norman Mailer, just sprung from jail.”

The Mailer photo, which we at the Voice have a vested interest in, hasn’t appeared yet, but the Capote photo certainly has, in all its glory. Click here to see it.

"More than any other contemporary African-American athlete, his ability to thrive in the pressure cooker of corporate America, while never making any embarrass­ing 'I’m not black, I’m universal' comments or selling his soul rather than just his visage, makes him a role model"

“Though his work for human rights is unassailable, the books grow worse and worse, the tales of his derring-do more and more farfetched. Finally, without at all forgiving him his lies, one feels sorry for Kosinski.”